Characters/Classes
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Promptapalooza No. 8: Share characters that tell us something about you
This is a post belonging to the Promptapalooza. I’m using Tessa’s prompt: “Share characters that tell us something about you.” I’ve found this prompt rather difficult at first because I had no idea which game characters I could name that would tell you about me. But then it dawned on me: The characters I create…
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LotRO: New race coming (with female dwarves)
I was surprised when I saw on MassivelyOP that Standing Stone Games, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online, announced a new race for the game. The news was originally shared and posted by Drac from LOTRO Players, who was there for the announcement at Gen Con. Additionally, being able to change your race…
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WoW: Choosing a class
As long as a game still has official servers, I am against playing on private servers. On the other hand, WoW Classic is coming up and I am looking forward to that nostalgia trip. At the same time, I am quite anxious because I have no idea if I can play it with my hand…
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Too many choices in Grim Dawn
When the 2nd (and last) expansion for Grim Dawn was announced, I didn’t think I’d want to buy it on its release day, because I didn’t see that it comes with a new class. And it’s not just any class, it’s the Oathkeeper. A class that from the videos I saw reminded me a lot…
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Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove: Part 3 (Character Creation)
This is the third post in the blog post series “Guild Wars 2 vs. Rift vs. Trove”. The title may suggest that at the end of this series, I will tell you which games is the best of the best, … But I will not do that! While the purpose of this series is to…
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Class names and expectations
I was just baking some bread while listening to a Trove stream (this one, to be precise) when the streamer was asked if Trove was going to add a healing class any time soon. I thought: Oooh, I would love that! But the streamer’s reply surprised me. “Yes, the candy barbarian will be somewhat of…
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Hall of Monuments: Armor
As you probably know, playing Guild Wars 1 gives you certain rewards in Guild Wars 2. A few days ago, I remembered that I had them and hopped over to the Hall of Monuments in Guild Wars 2 to claim them. One of the things that made me fall in love with Guild Wars 1…
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Guild Wars 2: A FAQ for new players
You may already know the first version of this FAQ. I decided to rewrite it, update it and put newer screenshots in. So here is the new version. A very special thank you goes to Tasha Darke for reading through it all. I was hoping for a few bits of corrected grammar but she gave…
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Criticizing Guild Wars 2
DISCLAIMER: If you want to criticize my post, feel free to do so (constructively, of course). However, if you want to do so, please READ it. Especially point 4 and its subject line: I complain about their marketing strategy. I do NOT complain about the skimpy armor. I even say so in the text. Read…
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Crosspost from TT: Sylvari – The Elves of Guild Wars 2!
This is another crosspost from Talk Tyria. If you want to add a comment, please add it there. Thank you. :) The sylvari, together with the asura, are the races we haven’t yet gotten to play either in the closed beta or during the first beta weekend event. They both were playable during some gaming…
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Naming and customizing your characters
I showed my STO character to my colleague (believe it or not, we actually do work in between chatting about games, I just don’t blog about our work here ^^) and told her how much time I spent on her… probably about an hour all in all (though that did include looking up which traits…
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Of merchandise, collector’s editions and Sylvari
Some time ago, a small package had arrived. I recognised the sender (a German site about online games). I was curious and opened it and… had no idea why I’d received the package. Then I slowly remembered. I’d participated in a giveaway-thingy and apparently, I had won (no email notification about it, I checked! ^^).…
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Rift vs. LotRO vs. World of Warcraft – a closer look at all three MMOs (all entries in one)
This is the full version of entries that have been published in the last week! I just thought it might be nicer to have everything in one huge entry instead of in separate ones (either way: You can find all entries in the category labelled “rift vs. lotro vs. wow” on the right). The topic…
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Asuran Madness!
When the playable races for Guild Wars 2 were first announced, I was a bit “meh” about Asuras at first. I usually like playing the tiny races. In this case, it took a while until I really loved the Asuras. Their quirky attitude might be responsible for that. However, I started loving them, especially after…
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Character Design: Star Trek Online
I bought Star Trek Online about a week ago for 3,50€ at Amazon. Yesterday, it was on sale at Steam for 2,75€. A friend and bookahnerk both bought this version and I was a bit jealous when I saw that it came with 500 Atari Tokens and the costumes from TOS (The Original Series –…
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